Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Go watch the new Napoleon movie.  Towards the end of his career, Napoleon takes 650,000 French and German troops to Russia, intent on taking Moscow. When he gets to Moscow, no one is there and it is torched while they are in it.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
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Napoleon decides to walk home to France.  Only 35,000 of his troops make it home with him.  Horrible.  Another 35,000 straggle in later.
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13287846/
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My point is that the Russians have been willing to go to extreme lengths to fight off invaders.  And at this point, they consider Ukraine to be a extended part of Russia.

Extreme lengths? Such as being lucky, setting houses on fire and running away?
Sounds like bad strategy if you ask me.

Lynn
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